Truman Capote : Hard Times Make Good Stories

Failing is a very important part of success. When one has failed, they then realize why succeeding was important. If never failed, one will always think life is easy and not value success. As an example of failing, one can take Michael Jordan and research his life story.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed”.

David Mamet claimed, “. it is the human lot to try and fail.” I agree with this quote because failure after trying is part of being human. In The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the main character Amir is faced with many challenges throughout his life, though he may attempt to battle these challenges he fails to, leaving him to live a life of grief and regret. In Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo’s son Nwoye fails to live up to the expectations set by his father.

Failure is also an achievement, with a negative result, opposite of accomplishment. A mother that shows no interest in raising her children, the children are not productive or morally responsible end in an achievement in failure by that mother. Not all negative achievements are failures. A negative achievement can become a positive, again it depends on the achiever and what they choose do with the achievement in question. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”- Winston Churchill. Throughout history the most successful people had a relationship with failure and still went on to make their mark on the world. You can have a live time of fails and one success to make it all worth it. “I suppose there are clues about his life there in the shut-up-and-locked room, perhaps even some traces of my mother, but better to be content with ignorance, I’ve always thought, than haunted by the truth” (Brume 101). A given opportunity to achieve (negative or positive) should not be ignored, it’s a gift of a life experience that expands your senses and enhances thought, it’s not something to be afraid of. Bravery can only be filtered through fear, being able to

Failure in my own life has taught me so many needed lessons for me to be successful. For example, I have failed many times in school, which has opened up new ways I have learned to succeed. A notable example of this is my first English essay I completed in my sophomore year. I did not do well. After this, I was able to discover

In life we all have encountered successes and failures, sooner or later. Although failure is dreadful, I can only learn from it. I have failed multiple times, but I matured and learned from the experience. I, being a teenager, thought a job would make me more efficient; however it was the exact opposite.

People experience failure everyday. Some people choose to allow it to affect them negatively or positively. How you chose to allow it to affect you is a direct reflection of you. The biggest failure I experienced affected me so largely, first negatively, but then positively.

Failing in various areas in life can give people a negative outlook on their own achievements. When failure strikes, people can become discouraged by their lack of achievements and give up. According to In Praise of Failure: The Value of Overcoming Mistakes in Sports and in Life by Mark Anshel, the author was a failure in numerous activities he wrote about in his book. “ I am not a failure (as a person); I failed at something” (Ashnel). This is a positive perspective on

In life, no matter the quest, if you aim to succeed you must first fail. Failure, one of life’s profound professors, allows us to utilize our mistakes in a way that will create positive results in the future, that’s if you let it.

Failure can be a very difficult thing to cope with. It can be something that makes you or breaks you. I have learned that failure is what defines a person; it shows your motivation to bounce back when things get rough. I have learned from my failure instead of dwelling on it and making myself weaker.

I define myself as a writer. To that end, I spent fifteen years developing my talents with classes, workshops and contests that give feedback. The last class focused on description. The peer reviews I have participated have contributed to my writing and editing skills. Although unpublished, I have a bachelor’s degree in Publication Management and currently service on the Board of The Atlanta Writers Club, a hundred-year-old organization that help authors with the craft and business of writing.

When I look at the word failure I didn’t see success. But that slowly changed as I read the book What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain Chapter four. Bain, for me and I’m sure many other, have changed our view point on failure being a bad thing. He instead expressed failure as an “opportunity to learn something.” (121) As infants we grow and develop, we learn to walk by falling down a couple hundred times, and we learn to speak by babbling. By trying to walk, and trying to talk, we may fail at first. As an infant, you cannot give up when you are face to face with failure. You must get up and try again to learn. In the book, What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain he uses people’s experiences and research to explain why failure is an opportunity to learn something new, rather than seeing failure as something bad. He asserts “people who become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge failures, even to embrace them, and to explore and learn from them.” (100) Failure is important. If we did not get up and try again as infants, we would not be where we are today.

Failure is a difficult concept for many people to accept because it is hard to understand what failure exactly is. The idea of failure can be seen in the concluding chapters of The Great Gatsby when Gatsby fails to achieve his dream of being with Daisy. The issue of failure exists within all people whether they are successful or not. The issue of dealing with failure is a difficult hurdle to overcome for many reasons, which includes ideas

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." B. F. Skinner. Everyone fails at one thing or another in one point of his or her life; it's a characteristic of being a human. But, it's not about how we fail; it's about how we're able to cultivate our past failures to elaborate on to future success.

Traditionally, failure is seen as a negative concept and is defined as lacking success. I, on the other hand, try to put a positive spin on everything in life. I see failure as an obstacle that is experienced by all, but it does not define an individual. Failure in essence will force an individual to be more receptive to their surroundings and actions and also will force an individual to mature. Looking back on my childhood years I can now pinpoint the areas where I failed and I can confidently say that I have grown and prospered due to those failures. The three major failures I have experienced were my attention deficit issues which affected my ability to succeed in school, my anti-social habit that I let consume my early years, and my